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WITII POETS
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Rime of the Thirsty Meriner.
If ie Lithely niariner
That etoppeth one of three
en, list, ye yap. to Whet will hap
Ef tsoons in this ceint tree.
"Lo, Weal option grows awe
And you can taec it straight,
From old don Wise those proltili guys
Will soon cork red-eytes fate.
"And mariners like you and me,
Both sehooner eaptitins true.
Who levee them well—sly, waitron
Will we do, me and you':
in my inind's eye the time 1spy —
The druggist heeds no wink.
Therren water, wat•er everywnere,
But not a drop to drink,
"The time haa come whoa Bill, bum,
Corn rush the festive enn,
When highballs high no inan can buy,
On coektails there's a
Ire swayed and fell, but then, they tell
Instead of looking glum, . •
dried: "Don't be sad; Pm doggone glad
To die ere them days. come."
--Kangas Pity Timm.
4 THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN, fitnese for a variety of fanetions, end
More eepechilly for mine"
nen red and allYer haVe both depre-
elated In terms ,of labor is due to the
A Most tnlightening Review of the function and Movements ot din:every of Woe quentithe of ere Ana
; the diecovery of now and °beeper meth-
. ode of extretting the meted from it, eir.
God. Coln and its Tokens m Paper, Silver and. Bronze. cumetancea whieh have not been Aim
The Mad Chauffeur.
'Ater head is full of whizzing wheele
And wound with slender wires,
I cannot walk bemuse my feee
Are shod with rubber then
A sparking plug is in my throat,
• A motor in my breast,
And night and day it beats away
And will .not let me rest.
'-
Ale, arms are somehow turnec1 to melts,
And greatly. bother me, •
I mud. not crank them up tee high,
Or trouble there will be.. -
A motor horn in .either ear
Keeps up a constant toot,
I used to keep ib going se)
• To see the public scoot.
Ho! take away the cup of fee
And rinse the vessel clean;
You ought to know my only drink
Is now of gasolene.
Sinee on the day I thenced to meet
(0 my unlucky star!) - . •
A man in blue aria brass who cluing:Al
Me to a motor nem
The Lay of the Lazy Man.
Breathee there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said:
"To -morrow morning I will rise
Before the sun lights up the skies.
"Pil set this clock so it will ring
Before the birds beginto sing;
Its strident.* bell will nue awake,
An early morning walk I'll take."
And when at an ungodlY hour
Next morn. the elect with all its power
Made noise enough to stir the dead
.And woke the man upon .the bed—
Breathes there a man, I now repeat,
Who wouldn't chnek it in the street, •
And beck into the bed then leap, .
And with a sigh go off to sleep?
—From the Marth Bohemian,
Looking Backward.
(Kansas City Star.)
Can't you imagine in the days
When Shakespeare wooed and wed,
The dames of Stratford when they met,
Their market baskets down they set,
And ere they went their separate wee's,'
Stith things as follow said:
'llave you heard?" What?" "Anne
Hathaway
Is very soon to marry!"
"Why, no, forsooth! Who is he, pray?"
"She's going to throw herself tway
On young Will Shakespeare, so they say,
Unless all plays miscarry."
"What, that peer, foolish rhymester lad!
lie never tan support her."
"Yes, doesn't it seem Almost sad?
Beeause we know she might have had
One of true worth. It seems too bade'
When betters came to eourt her."
"They say some years the elder
"And he's not worth his salt.
As any one with eyes can see.
"Well, if young folks will foolish be
At least they can't blame you and me—
It's trely not our fitult."
Yes, don't you suppose slieh things were
said
When young Will Shakespeare wooed
and wed?
When Anything Goes Wrong.
You'll Rind no help in 'hurrying
And scutsrying
And worrying,
You'll find no help in flurrying
When anything goes wrong.
Just face it like a -little Ii11111
And do the very best you can,
You'll find this far the better plan,
If you would get along.
You'll find no help in sighing so
And crying so, •
And pining so,
You'll find no help In whining $o
When anything goes wrong.
Just meet the trouble with a laugh
And soon its size will be but half.
You'll find this quite a helpful staff,
If you would get along.
—jamos Rowe, In the Chlldron's Star Maga-
zine,
The Mother.
The mother by the gallows tree,
The gallows tree, the gallows tree,
(While, the twitching body mocked the sun)
Lifted to heaven her broken heart
And clued for sympathy.
Then Mother wary tent to her,
Bent tram her place by God's left side,
And Whispered: "Peace—do I not know? --
My Son was trueified!"
"0, Mother Mall," answered she,
"You cannot, cannakenter in
'ro any soul's woo—yoU cannot knolV,
Por your on Wrought no ein!"
Then Lord Christ bent to her and midi
"Ile comforted, be eomforted:
know your grief: the Idiots sverld's woo
I bore upon my head."
"But, 0 Lord Christ, you cannot knolv,
No one eon know," she said, no "ono"—
(White the ctuiveriog corptie swayed in thr,
wind)— •
"Lortl Christ, no one can understand
Who never 'had 41 8011!"
—Don atereute, txi Pittlnitn'S.
'The Masher and the Wield.
Lettered Lyried
Irt the garden a maid lie (re,
She had suck deep blue Ps,
He .speaks to herd-she:5 At her Ws
For to his game shon Y's,
He says, "May T help shell thole P's?"
"Oh, no, Air, 'tie no no
"My dear, you Are a little, Tal."
From thie she tekes her Q.
Shp ear, "Leave me how .or
VII think you are one of those .7's
And overturn a hive of Ire."
To make his exit. he SA`e.
—Mardi Bohemian.
th'rorn the Fortnightly lieview.)
The attitude of a certain inaperiect-
ly informed section of the daily press
is probably responeible for stivhman.
factured anxiety as there may be in
public mind . anent the recent heavy
shipments of sovereigns from this
0ountry abroad.
Indeed, it has been suggested that
owing to possible shortcomings in our'
Hum' arrangements these and like die,
bursoments involve a serious national
leen and a consequent diminution et
gold finding its way into the pockets
Of the British workingman. A details,
ed aocount of these and other move-
ments of ,coin and bullion will, it is
leeped, throw light on the actual
facts, and thereby allay any anxiety
on the subject. It is no doubt sur-
prising to the uniniated to learn that
the annual absorption of gold in Egy-
pt is out of all proportion to its popu-
lation and poverty. As compared with
this oountr,y it is enormous, although
we maintain our papers in a state of
luxury undreamed of by the simple
felalun of the Nile. But a kindred
comparison may be made as between
this country and Russia. The one
with no. gold or silver mines, and the
other with some of the richest in the
world; the one phenomenally opulent,
the other 1111Serably peer,
Such eomparieone at once suggest
that gold resources and gold reserves -
ere not quite so essential to con:anon.
lel prosperity. as Is oommonly believ-
ed 'We hall endeavor to show that
before the organized heroes of modern
banking the more camnsy methods of
barter employed by our forefathers
must yield and that the importance
OX preoious metal as a means of our-
ren?sy nitlat wane, the quantity ern-
plOyed for the purpose 'torn:ling an
ever decreasing fraotion of total trade
turnover.
The transfer of metallic disks is a
mode of barter which is no doubt less
oumbersonee than the primitive meth-
ods it has superseded, • but it is 'far
too oumbersorne for tb.e vast transac-
tions of modern merchants and their
bankers, who %WO the oheaper,
philter, and in, every wiry metre val-
tusaebs1.0 i4Tstem of a ourreney of prom..
It is customary to venire these pro.
misses da terms of coin of the realm,
but if they were made in tame of *
the great principle of &edit waned not
be affeoted. It is clear that two men
constantly exohanging oargoes of
goods' credit and debit eaole other in
any ernbol they chose, so long as
they were agreed as to the purchasing
power of that symbol.
The state, however, stipulates, for
convenience, that in the event of a
diepute mining and tilde jurisdiction
being required, the symbols shall be
in a partioulex est of terens.—i. e.
Terme of Coin of the Realm.
If for any geed reason it wore de-
cided to make these pronhisee in other
forme the business of baxlkIng could,
be enafly well clonduoted uu, or the
riew .con tions. Gold at the present
moment ic), however, he most conven-
ient commodity foe the purpose.
So roach, and so mesoh. only, has
gold to otto ° MMUS.
"en rrert coin of t e testa" we are
epproa nig a su eot over which
In dr the doestion of
mann ever men, istenetionen and eoon-
omitted have admittedly snimbled.
They have blundered not through any
Mok of mental power, but because
in forming their con.olusions /mint as
it Were, a birdseye point of view,
they have dwarfed Matters of detail
Whole had they bean observed from
lower planes woteld hrene at (Mee re-
vealed themeelves an neenrinotMtable
tobsteeles, The preatszet welter once,
titiked an Australian absorbs/ why he
roofed his house with corrugated iron
instead of thatch urging that theoor.
in
engated irovtivi cold, ugly and ex.
ensine, and that the" thatch wets
Warm, pretty and cheap,
"But," said flee cowboy, "insects
et into the thatch, frogs come after
e tweets and Snakes oome after the
o Sol'
e propose to consider the question
of the funetion of the coin and its
IQken9 net from the exalted position
eOhaneellor of the Exohequer, but
hem the point of view of a banker's
olefin To make any safe progress to
an ,understanding of idea matter, we
Must be oar_efui to avoid any vague
eiguagg. FOr. instance, the weeds
ey' and "cashare responsible
fos mut& hopeless bewilderment; both
sae words iney mean dein, tokens
e Coin, instruments of oredit or pur-
ohittig potter in any !nem.
*eating of Com of the realin
(eiti betlyegie the yeare 1417 and ;007)
see &tint be taken to mean the "sov-
%gni; we t.
oreign" al"listif sovereign" of legal
3,131'.714.11rt*tif) eneinpieeetticoota eiltellIve9Inc-twel.fthe4 .41716
of ptti'e gold and en alloy of one4weif4h
top or the elloy Benin added to make
It ar r end thus render it more dun,
ale, It i the etandard of lrelUe Qf the
en quite now it Weighs 123.-
21 pane, hat in the early deys of its
nee the emend of its sharply
ea Elmo with tbe slierand harder
steel edged shovel of
The Banker's Cashier
'soon aline it of its develmel points. To
meet this diffieulty of wear and tem
end to Alla it a euffloient length of
legit 'life 0, sovereign temente a legal
***ensign Until it is worn down in
Weight to 122.5 grains. It then becomes
defeentle,rd gold," and the Bank of Eng -
lend is under statutory obligations to
buy it at t3 170, Od, an ounce.
TJio vale f an Omit* of standard
gold le 43 17e. IO 1-2de quobing it in
tetins of Itself.
By tokens of min we MOM ali diner
and browse pieces Amok et the Mint
and recognizable as having • been so
sintick. Token s niffet from coitus in hav-
ing a film value In no way related to
theireintrinsie velue—e, g., a ileW ban
OrtrWril is'of no greater value (eonsiaered
the A token) than an old half erown
WW1 it worn down to two-thirds of its
original weight. 'loth old and new ban
°towns aro worth on their face value
ono -eighth of a sovereign, The value of
the metal contained in a new half erown
it ithent Is. 3d., and the value, of the
metal contained in an old belt mown is
bled 10d.
By the worde "instrument of credit"
Ive Mean pieces of paper sloth as betel(
notes, bills of exe,bange or cheeks, nil
of Width in their present form are
abrIdgmente of more 'deb -mutely worded
lettere from one inan to Another hia.k-
ing some hind of definite promise
Fer convenient,. the kind of pro.
Mise is now confined to tetnie of eoirt
of this or tome other realm.
It will be eteu front the foregoing de -
&Rion af n tioemeign that its wastage
during its legal life es a little more then
three-fourths of a pain, about 1 1-2d.,
ina that the itnetege of tt half *Over-
lap, is a little more three one half offt
grain, about Id. These differences in
value aro eo small where the use of one
ora tionell Or so of coins is
as to pass unrecognized by the general
pleblie dud unheeded by thine who aro
fan alive to .the Met. It is partly -due
to noinrceogattion of the ntire'lfin
triudo
Values of gold Coln
and pertly due to non -recognition of
the cumbersonieuese of large messes of
metal that remit misconception erises
as to the aotuel function performed by
gold col%
field coin (and its tokens, shilliuge And
pence) is used among neighbors in mall,
cash transactions, but it is not toted, nor
could it be used, •panoug merchants in
settlement of amounts. This latter func-
tion it is a part of the !stinkers' business
to discharge, and it is carried out by
them in the cheapest, quickest and san-
est way possible -by the interehange of
cheeks and bills entrusted, to them by
their elients At a place celled the Bank-
ers' Clearing lime,
The Bankers' Clearing House ie a
large room In the City where bankers
"settle up" accourits with each ether ev-
ery day. Emit banner lerings all the
cheeks, etc, he holds, draevet an other
bankers, to the Clearing House, and
the Clearing House gives hille Qredit fer
bite total amount. The clearing House
den behalf of all the other bankers)
holds doom:gnats drawn on this banker,
and the total of these Is plaeed on the
other side -of the account, A memoran-
411ln of the difference between the two
totals, either for or against the ban.
ker, is ferwarded to the Bank of Reg -
land at the and of the day and the
banker% account in the ledger of the
Bank of England is either debited or cre-
dited with the adireenb of that difference
one testy or the other. These differencee
are as a Kele small and the labor invol-
ved in recording them is insignificant. A
few strokes abbe pen one the thing is
&One. In tbis. way the wholesee busi-
ness of 1,foluton Is settled in ft currency
of progitoo$ (Promisee far toe valuable
to be brolcen, but the cheapest currency
in the wot41). Cargoes of inerehandiee
have changed bee*, but the gold in
terms of *Ugh the values of these ear -
goes have been nuoten, Nut remained
stook still an a rtwrther of taussike in a
cam in the Bank J)Ingland.
The man in the street dons not TOW
Mee the impressibility of the use of ooin
In large tra,neentdons; this is evideneed
by the widespread belief that the differ -
mice in value 'between our imports and
enesorte, amounting to some 4150,000,-
000 (or 1,240 tons ef :sovereigns), le made
up by annual disbursements of • British
sterling coin.
This belief, which probably owes its
origin to the fact of values being quoted
in terms of eein, has been publicly pro -
feinted by. a colonial Premier and is an
anceieni. esencue amotig the savants of .
•
tbe bar parlor en both sides of the
world. Apart, however, from this fra-
ternity tiler, are to be found men of ed-
ucation end edellity vrhose ideas of the
funetten qf gel4 coin ere evidently based
on pxperino4l el innoli
The wriktir has before him a letter
from tile eater of a London newspaper
Iii which apprehension is expressed an to
what would be tiro result
. Were Foreign importers
to demand gold coin iu payment of the
bills of exchange hold by them in re-
spect of cargoes delivered.- i
.Apprehension, however, is unwarrant-
ed, as this country would and does in:
variably gain by the transaction, and
except in ouch oases as are justified by
market conditions such a demand would
involve a cerreeponding loss.
The merchant is fully alive to the
many objections to the transport of gold
in the ehane of either bars or coin, and
consequently he never ships it unless it
is specifioally required in the ordinary
course et bee:Mess. JA is then handled
in exactly the same way as any other
Commodity.
The movement of gold hiaplicitly obeys
the lave a supply and demand. To
those localities wiere.gold is in demand
gold will be .attracted so long as other
terms of property are offered in ex-
gisange for It at remunerative rates.
"told bennues active" when the balance
of exchange cannot be met otherwise
than by the. shipment of gold; also in
circurnstanoes of disturbed credit, when
it will always go to a premium And, a
loss will be incurred by the comniunity
whose credit is disturbed and by those
who hold the securities involved,
Ignoring eddies and disturbances, gold
t avels on a well beaten think, obeymg.
t 0 same leers as ivory or oranges or
chalk.
All commodities proceed from locali-
ot
,biets
ai,wnhere they -aro plentifin -or whine
they are easily procured or obtained to
leealities where these conditions do not
The difference between/the yenta • of
an ivory tusk in CentralAfrica, where
it is used as a stake in the palisade of
the King's kraal and where there art
neither the thole nor the knowledge nor
the desire to turn it to better wound.'
and its value on its arrival in London is
a striking example of the enhanced value
conferred upon commodities by the ac -
eon of trade.
Gold producing countries, such as the
United. States of Aniee.ca, Russia, the
Transvaal end Australia, all export void
to those countries which produce innuf-
ficient quantities or none at all.
The British Isles
produce no gold or silver worth men-
tioning, and consequently all precious
motel used in this cottetry is imported;
and it is pitid for by us in the shape of
some cotresponding benefit conferred on
the countries producing it.
There are no exports et British geld
from the United Kingdom.
It is a Reif -evident pr000sitien that 1;o
country mil export that whiolt it does
riot protium.
This country is a large consumer of ,
preeitare metals exported from other '
countries.
Distiaguished statesmen who advocate
the monetization of silver would prob-
ably reeonsider their, opinions if they
could be afforded the opportenity of a
dyes id:retinal experience in hendling
Wee quantities of the tero metals.
On this bead we may perhape point
out that'll silver min were called into
existence to discharge the function now
perforinea by gold (Ann, or any portiou
of VIM function an enormous inercaee id
tenting house and banking expellees
would reartit pro tete. To raise the
silver token to the position of n. eoin
that is to make itt intrinsic vela° and
ate.e value taaetly the same the silver
coin vrould need, to be twice its present
sire end weight. Thin wonla involve tee
ing eoins Wee tha size of the present
tokens or twice the number of them.
Where ft transaetion wrtx settled in
thou coins in lion of gold reales- the bulk
of metal minim' would be about fifty
times ao great a4 thlt now employed.
Gold hee stepreent. d it: terms of Ail -
ver owing t ) recogeition of Its stiperioe
terbalented by a correepondingly
itt-
eretectl demand. The recoet enorntoue
.varitttion in the relative value,' between
the two is due to A
Cheap Supply of Sliver
on the one bend and the' preference
given to gold for purposes of coinage ou
the other, lu exaetly the same way
that gold lion recently teeth:tett Biller
and silver long ago replAced iron nails,
cattle, hides, or other early forms of
coin, ao credit will to a greater and
greater extent tend to replace gold,
With appreciation of the value of credit
will come ite popularity. 'Then those
litho possesa it may be relied upon to
guard it se nt aseet infinitely more
valuable for the purpose of currency
than disks of goll or even of iridium,
Front time to time the (Tilden is ea
-
reseed that the reserve at the Bank of
England should be increased co-ordin-
ately with the inerease of berating trans-
actions. We shall endeavor to show,
with all diffidence and the respect duo
to the many competent expressions of
opinion to the contrary, that this ammo
Is not only necessery but that it
would tend, to rater(' the development of
the business of bolting try burdening It
with expense. Unlike the ituderity of
legislators, Lind Goshen devoted time
and attention to the consideration of
this important matter, and the opinions
he expressed were undoubtedly arrived
at consoientionslyi but when lie, turn to
the acts of the government, aids In
Whiell be took a controlling part, we find
that he did not follow out lite oat,
'tereqhing.
If unsoundness d6Usiat in the inability
of the bankers to discharge theer
Ikibil-
Ities ti gold coin, a reaerve qf 99 per
cent, instead of 7 per cent. would no -b
an absolute QUre. We ere ante Lord
doschen mild have admitted that quia
eoundnees' Must mean inability to meet
any probable Or remotely probable call.
We shall therefore consider the reason.
able probabiiltiee of the ease. We quite
realize the possibility of a number Of
citizens on the mune day buying ten
times as much bacon as they could poe-
sibiy eat and continuing to do so for a
given period. It is dear that a. shortage
of bacoa would result, and that it would
continue until 'the market readjUsted it-
self to the imwonted requirement,
We contend that any unvesteonable
demand for gold. in etoess of needs
Would have preditely the mine) result es
at unreasonable ..dentand for haeola and
that teeth are grossly improbable.
Lord .Goschen
would perhaps have said that in time of
panic the citizen becomes unreasonable,
and hence the danger.
We will examine this by. the light of
actual fact.
Some years ago an old lady felt down
opposite the entrance of the London and
County Bank, 21 Lombard street, A
ordnvd" collected around her. This aeon
dent led to a groundless rumor that the
house was in difficulties. A number of
depositors took fright and a me.uvain
dsheure ensued.
A notice was promptly put up outside
the establishment stating that the doors
would be kept open till 10 o'clock at
night, or all night if necessary, and ar-
rangements were made with the Bank of
England for a sufficient supply of notes
and coin to meet any possible demand.
In a short tline this foolish exeiteinent
subsided and the unreasonable "panie"
was at an end.
. .
We will now suppose that this unrea-
sonable panic instead of subsiding had
epread and that like withdrawals were
being made kom other banks. We will
further suppose that in a single day the
banks in question were denuded of gold
coin to the extent of $10,000,000 (about
deghty tons of gold coin). The queetion.
now arises, what would the public de,
with this vast quentity of metal, -Judg-
ing from experience as to what actually
happened in the ease cited, we suggest
that the public would bring their money
*to the Beek of England, and that the
Bank of England would on the next day
supply the banks affected with the
identical sovereigns so received, and so
matters would continue untir the public:
came to their senses. Should, however,
the public retain the gold in their pos.
session the effect of soon a state of
affaire would undoubtedly cause the rate
of discount to rise abnormally, and. gold.
Would be imniediately attracted to Lon-
don from abroad. Seth an
Unreasonable Panic
would involve a loss to the communitee
but it is almost impossible that under
the existeng organization any failure to
meet engagements from shortage of gold
could occur.
Are we not If tich better off under
present conditions that forruerly, when
gold reserves were in greater proportion
to liabilities? Under former conditions.
it was found necessary to suspend the
bank act on three occasions the last -time
being ht 1860, tenth the growth of
modern banking. this • contingency is be.
coming more and more remote and
clearly indicates -that the modern system
of credit is not based upon gold or upon
any one form of wealth, but upon mar-
ketable. assets in general.
The banking community, wheee heart
is in London, needs a substantial mini.
• mum of gold nt call, Which must be suf.
ficient to defeat a "corner." We take it
that £10000,000 would be ample for this
purpose, and the present sum hela .
double that amount.
Experience proves that it is not neces-
sary to financial soundnees for a banker
to pewits gold over and above hie normal
requirements; what he inust Ogden is
the power of attracting gold promptly,
and this he can always do by pledging
his assets (in forms of wealth othet
than gold), the market value of which
must be, if he is fiteincitilly sound, fat
In esteem of his liabilities.
In the absence of the a detailed hypo-
thesis showing by whet imaginable ele.
cumstanc.os„ short of a netional debacle,
gold la suds 8 quautity as the present
Bank of England reserve of nearly 200
tons is likely to be siiddenly demandect
by the publie or by the foreigner), and
furthermore showing upon what basis
we aro to U68111110 that tier Maumee
power of Attraeting fresh supplies would
certainly cease, WO Matt be eontent to
believe- our present holding sufficient.
A mininnun is requisite, but what that
minimum (dwelt' be °illy experienee can
indieate.
It cannot be a fiXed quantity, but
initotimost. be ono varying with the multi-
plicity of eonditione whit+ go to make
up national, &vita and commercial rived
Alfred 'Worwiek Gattis.
On Second, Thought.
"Outetts withont beggage," delleetely
hinted the hotel clerk, eizing him up, "aro
uettelly required to, pay in advenee.'
'"rlutt's ell right, pard," said Uncle:let
farnekitt, pulling a large wed out of his
. peeket and is.aatening to peel off a $1,000
bill.
"Your aar- baggage ie entirely setts
-
fakery, sir," laattily obeerved the hotel
their, breaking raft into a cold tweet.
YEAR OLD BOY COULDN'T STAND!
Limbo Weakened by La Grippe
Mauls Strong by Zoin-Buk,
IYIre. T. Brixton of $ WoOdwertit Ave., St. Thome], Oat, says:
"I had he'd some expel -fence 44 to the efficacy of Zem-Buic in healing twee,
cute, etc., and had heard good reports from friends who also tried this bolo/,
so when a year ago my little lad, four years of age, was left weak in the limbs as the
result of A severe attack of influenza, I began rubbing in the Zion-Buk. Hie legs
were so weak he would tremble and shake and wes unable to stand for any length of
time, Frequent Applications of this ointment well rubbed in, seemed to strengthen
hint daily, end in e eery short time the shaking and trembling In his limbs had been
banished and he soon got strong and Able to run about, Oinks to Zam-liuk."
eeneaua a e insole embrocation for rheumatism, antia., .a., and 14 without equal
as a healing beim. •
Z.A.M/X-XEET„.TIC
Zani•Bult cures outs, burns, scalds, ulcers, ringworm, me barber's
rash, blood poison, bad leg, salt rheum, abrasions, stamens* !Ind all
akin injuries and dig -
oases, Of all stow
and druggists sac. box
or from Zatn.13uk Co„
Toronto, postIpsid for
poee, soonest -or rats,
BUK
•---
Sand tampon and
so, stamp for tree
sample to Zam-Iitik
Q0., Toronto, 3K
New Females,
One of the praetitioners of the new
mental therapeutics cult gives out these
forneoltie for nse in treating three nerv-
ous disorders:
Inability to sleep—Itelax the body,
check all thoughts same of sleep,
Hysteria—Tell the patient that he hes
a great minit force that is inactive, with
which to combat the ailment.
Melancholia or depression— Inaugurate
variety in the patient's life; banish All
routine.
t
"T
mate. Zona Elorstolios *ad SY tern el
90 Iteonwboitoe:' oSauttarr
ft ,,,,var mit.. tele by drItitgiate.
- -
New Use for X -Rays.
To obviate the enormous amount of
time loet In the Ceylon pearl fisheries in
opening oystees which are found to be
without pearls a French professor of the
University ref Lyons some time ago lett
upon the idea of using the Xerays to as,
certain what was the nature of the con-
tents of the precious mollusc*, ill order
that only the -most valuable *nee eveuld
need to be opened. The idea wee (Oiled
to be impracticable on account of the
time it took, but now an Amerfean
constructed aer-ray apparatus, provid-
ed with a retitle, arrangement, which
allows of more than 100 oysters being
'radiographed"' in 16 seconds, or about
24,000 an hour,
Russia * becoming e. great buyer od Brit-
ish -grown teas. Partly owing to the enor-
mous increase -in the quantity they are using,
the price of tea at the gardens has advanced
greatly during the past year, making it neces-
eery for the "Salads." Tea 0o., in order to
anishrbain the high standard ofquality for
Wirloh "Salado." is noted, to advance the price
of "Brown Label" from 250 tO see per pound.
Remarkable Automatic Balloon.
The French dievernment is interested
in a scheme tor exploring the Sahara
by balloon. Beforeneeronauts undertake
the trip, however, a balloon provided
with automatics steering and equilthret-
ing apparatus is, if poseible, to be sent
alone across the desert, from north to
south. The northwest winds, which
prevail over the Sahara from Oc-
tober until April, are depended on to
drive the balloon on. Its voyage of about
1,400 miles, from Gabes on the Mediter-
ranean to the Niger River. A steel
guide -rope 2,400 feet long governs the
balloons' motions. Whenever it sinks
to within 150 feet of the ground, the
change in the position of the rope re-
-sults hi the opening of an automate
valve, allowing the escape of water
ballast. As the balloon rises the valve
oloses. If the experiment succeeds, four
aeronauts will try to cross in a balloon.
. Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia..
An Invidious Call.
One ante/rues:et. tele ,promietor of an
Anima store said to his young clerk:
"Tone, I'm going upstairs •to work on
the boredis, 111 enosone eosnes in for a. live
anhasi,i, let me knortv. You out attend to
seeing the stuffed a•nimale yeomen"
About heel an hour later in came a
legman whitlh his son altd: asked Tem
1 hen could ehow him a &I've Monkey. lb
the oustarner's amazement, the clerk ran
to the Loot of the ebaire and yelled:
"Coin° dawn, °onus down, sir; youtre
wantect."—Judgees Library.
Marvelous case of Leo Corrigan
which shows that skin diseases here
toforaconsidered hopeless can be cured.
Shico childhood, Leo Corrigan had
been tortured with thp burning agony
and itching of Eczema. His parenta
had spent a great deal of money In con-
sulting physicians and buying medicines
—but all to no purpose.
As he grew older he sought other
doctors—seme of them spee.ialists. He
was eleven weeks in a Toronto hospital—
eight weeks in bed. At tintes the brie
teflon aud pain caused by the Eczema
wereso aevere, life was a burden. He
would, get so bad he could not walk.
Sevesal vrinters he could do now**.
He wrote, on February eo, xe06:
"In November, 2905. I had another attack
end was advlited to use Mfrs Ointment. g
thought this would be like the other remedies
Iliad (ried, and of net use tome). But, to My
great delight, a few hotel rater the first
application, x tett great relief.
have lista it, now, two and st•helf rnonthi,
. and unhesitatingly :date that it la the beat
remedy I ever used. It has worked Wonders
for me. Since Using Mira °Malicia I have
been able to work every day—wittuntt irritation
or pain—n0 satinets Of the littibs or soreness.
feel a new person,
"Prom a state of great irritation and some.
threes excruciatiog pains to freedom from oil
ouch, being capable of doing 'hard work every
esPeltel:titlirjel°' °bulge' Mira Ointment
"I strongly reedit:I:tend May person tifdlcted
with this terrible complaint-Ehteltla--td tate
mins Olettnent."
What title wonderfully effective +Dint*
Merit has dorm in this extreme chronic
ease,it arm do in other seemingly incurs
able conditions. If you suffer front any
forte of akin -disease, don't delay.
Certain relief and curt is veldts you in
Mint Ointment. Get a beix to -clay. aoe.
—6 for $2.50. At drugstores --or from
The Chemists' Co. of Canada, Ltd.,
Hamiltone-Totetake. • 111
1„1 aCira U 1 to le.,
TIM KAM SANITteto,
VEGETARIANISM.
German Professor Considers It is Not
Suitable for Europeans.
An absolute vegetarian diet is not
suited to the needs and interests of Eur-
opean races, This is the conclusien of
APiteeeh, of Berlin. Ho sans, in part:
'Inn vegetarian diet ie not suited to leu.
ropean organs; but, relieved by the addi-
tion of milk, grain, butter, :noose, eggs,
ate, it offers many advantages. It alka-
lizes the blood, it regulates the eiroulee
tion end preserves the elasticity of the
arteries.
"It makes one less liable to danger
froin -maladies of the ski and of the
joints and to congestion of the internal
organs. It tends to less Agitation and ag-
gressiveness, As a system of nourish-
ment it is rational enough. Should the
wish -be for a milder race no diet would
be superior, Yet an absolute vegetarian
diet le impossible for the white races,
because the digestive tract of Europeans
(and Americans) has long since been
rendered unfit for such diet.
:
WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE
Prom October to May, Colds are the attest
frequent cause ofHeadache. LAXATIVIC
oternoovhle ,son r_emoves cause. la. W,
A Loquacious Swain.
Ma, .Backwoode had called for tam
Mist time to emelt Miss Bumpkin to the
weekly prayer meeting. An excess of
Maned* and self-eoeseiousnese reduced
both to the point of ebsoluto eilenee un-
til at lest mid with ensible effort, as the
"meeting house" is neweed, the gallant
summons nu his eour.age:
"Do you like stewed laterite he haz-
eras.
"Yes," returns the maiden coyly.
.Andn sigenee, until on the return ;
journey the home lights are si,ghted,
when, with another mighty effort the
resourceful swain asks feelingly:
„"Ainet the gravy nicer"
And yet there (Ire those thtut main-
tain elett,t 'country folk sometimes seem
at it loss for conversation:11 topica.
..1••••••••••...•
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.:
Gentlemen,—Theodore Doraii, a cus-
tomer of mine, was completely cured of
rheumatism after five years of Buffer-
ing, by the judicious use of MINARD'S
LINDIENT.
The above fade can be -verified by
writing to him, to the parisn priest., or
any of his neighbors.
A. COTE, Merchant.
_ Sb, Isadore, Que., 12th May, '08,
Satan Terrified.
(Woman's Home Companion.)
There is as great genius displayed in
advertising as in the higher branches of
literature. No problem daunts the mod-
ern advertising man.
In the Window of a little book store in
Eighth avenue, New York, was recently
heaped, v. great pile of .Bibles, marked
very Iow—never before were Bibles of-
fered at Buell a bargain, and above them
all, in big letters, was the inscription:
"'Satan trembles when he sees
Bibles sold as low. as these."
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Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff.
-
,Mixing .and Combining Ingredients.
Flour and sugar are tossed lightly in-
to cup and leveled with a knife.
Butter Is always packed closely in
either cup or spoon and leveled with a
knife:
Butter and other fats should bet
creamed with a wooden spoon in an earth-
en bowl or a. granite veasel to insure
success in cake baking; and sugar should
be added gradually.
The lightly beaten whites of eggs
:should be cut and folded Into mixture
hot.
Sugar to be need for making cake may
be dfted once to remove large crystals.
Fine granulated sugar is best for cake
leaking in general.
To flour a pan in which a cake is bak-
ed, butter it well on bottom and sides;
s14 flour lightly over entire surfacer an
Lei -wards invert pan and shake out.
perfluous floun
take should be removed from pan as
noon as baked.
Cake shouldalways be cooled on a
cake cooler,
Eggs are beaten three degrees of light-
ness. Slightly beaten when they are
beaten with a fork to the consistency
to run from the tines. Lightly beaten
when whites and yolks aro beaten to -
gather thick and light. Beaten stiff
when whites are beaten separAtely until
they will"stand.
There are three motions used in com-
bining ingredients, stirring, beating and
cutting ana folding. By stirring ingred-
ients are thoroughly mixed. By beating
e largo quantity of Air is incorporated.
But cutting and folding, air previously
introduced is not allowed to ese,ape.
• s y
• To Put a Pautet in a Barrel.
It is no easy task- place a barrel
in position after the faucet late been in.
sorted. The following simple expedient
will mike it easier; First, stand the
barrel on end. Il -re the hole for the
fattest in the ueuttl way mil theft plug
It With it cork. k;have llk- cork off -close
to the barrel. Having piatesa the barrel
in position, put the end of theefaueet
squarely stud firmly on the cork. Drive
it into tile barrel, fatting the tork
ahead, A turn or two of the faucet
makes it tight.
Sliehtly Different.
torus (struggling author)—I was", ear -
prised At the revertible reception 1w:untied
the Tittle Wee comedy I wrote last
month. But what did your dratuttie
eritie meart by sugeesting that I write
another one before I retire?
Nsergite (literary relltor)— He didn't 1,
put it quite that way. ire Miff you I
eught to write Otto more, and thee quit.
irgikaipsymimmoocemmiboirwei.,4i
f EXPERINIENTS WITH .
i
i VEGETABLE'S.
1.0-00....tipi....40.•40.40.140..,40
410 inactive!, tntucatiointi eagle we-
lled on by the Owberio Alrientbural ()ol.
lege, through the 1.,.xpernuente.1 *Union,
le now well known. rarougnout Ontario,
'Jelsoueentle of people in both 'Went and
countiy interested in farraiug, fruit -
trotting or ganientog are oarrying Q11
eXperilneWiti under the nireetion of the
Why° and aro peorfiting by the expert,
ewe.
lite needs or plants for these expert -
meets and full hoax -acetone for connuot-
ing them are forakelted fneet on the un-
demtanding that each expenmearter Mil
report the restelte of Ina experiment at
the end of the season.
Owing to Sete great diernand, for the esc.
peaneerte Ninth fleas end the limited
fund's for .the nueolutse of plats for tide
pennon the supply of these for this
nee,r is already exhausted. But we have
an hand a good supply of seethe for the
experiments with vegenebtee and hope
to be able to furnieh theee to al, inkier.
carted in the gnawing oe the beat kind of
garden vegetables.
Three of the leading Varieties of oath
of the following kinds of vegetables are
offered fer testing this enring, viz,,
beets, comes, onions, lettuce, early to-
nvietoos'Ind hater tometoes,
The eerily tomatoes are beet for
northeen stecrbione, where the later and
better ranieteee cannot be depended up-
on to ripen.
Any pension in Ontmie Who Wishes to
join in this cooperative testing may
elsoose any one of the experiment:3,4.0ov°
mentioned'and send in his applieation
for the seeds and inetruoisioeve for eon -
¬ing the same, These will be rent
by moil free of charge, lent emelt appli-
cant muse agree to follow the directions
furniehed, and report the results at the
end of blie season, whether succereful or
DOS,
Aeiticatione will.be filed in the order
tihiey ere received lintel the supply of
:weds is exibmiebed Andreas all applies, -
*ens to
. II. L. Hutt,
Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph, One.
etedelf tes
Chewing Tobacco
Rich and satisfying.
The big black plug.
22eEl
$26,000 for a Lost Painting.
A few yeare -ago a Western man eaene
to Mr. Brorwles studio and. seemed to
gain satisfaction in finding its faun/ear
features unchanged. Ile told the artist
that in his boyhood he had worked in
the streets of New York, and, with
others of his elnee, latd served As a
model for one of his pleturee of street
boys. nleo ,baxi gone West rend lied. mos -
pared, and Pow had returned with the
desire to become the owner of the group
pietism, in eiskili ii ana same of Ms
boyish enonien anpearest. He wanted it
as a 1,0111111(1er of the struggles of his
boyhood. He looked back on those days
as being quite 418 bu.ppy as any he had
ever known. The eieture, stays W.
Howard Stanaish, -dlacussiug J. G.
Brawn, a Painter of Humble Folk, hnd
long ago -been sold, and, although the
wonldebe purchaser offeredto give his_
elueque for $26,000 for the work, the
artkt was unable to supply any clew to
lee whereabouts.—New Beoadevtay Maga-
zine.
PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS
PilE0 OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
ease of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles' in 6 to 14 days or money refunded.
600
The Best Ever.
(Catholic Standard.)
Mrs. Bridey—To-morrow will be
George's birthday, and I've bought a
lovely box of cigars—
Mrs. Oldenwels—Oh, I wouldn't have
done that. It's a mistake for a woman
to buy cigars for her husband unless
she's careful to get the very best—
Mrs. Bridey-4)h, but I was eareful. I
picked out e box called "Best Ever." Of
course, there couldn't possibly be any-
thing better than thatl
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Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc.
*
Some Day.
"Some day," said a Montreal physician
whose practice is largely among children,
"parents, teachers and people generally
will -reach such a high state of civilized
comprehension that this one important
truth will be universally raccepted and
acted upon, namely: No healthy child
is --ever ill tempered. No sick ehild is
good natured. Bad temper is due to mere
physical ailment, invariably."
There is CO iy 0130
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ISSUE NO, 1 1008.
SOPORIFIC SERMONS.
Scientific Explanation of a Foiling of
Church -Going Humanity.
The well-known explanation that the
titliffillete of the atmosphere itt a church
is the cause of eleepineee le members of
the congregation is, according to the
Revue Solentifique (Penns) "lusufficlent,"
If this hypothesis were tenable, arguee
our anthority, it is manifest that the
congregation, or thou members of it
who root readily to a soporific agent,
woultlego to deep before the sermon he -
gen. Now, It is notorioutt that the sleep-
ing ia done during the sermon. The true
explanatibn is that the auditor uncoil-
aetouely hypnotizes himself or herself by
ooneentratiug the gaze for a long period
eit a *tingle object, whether the counten-
ance of the preacher or the pulpit, or
'what not, The more desperate the effort
to heed the sermon the surer this effect
of self-hypnotimtion. Those who sleep
during the sermon are, consequently, the
very members of a congregation who are
conesientioite he words
J
en,a
tn
iv
a
tledr
, o the highest praise for their effort to follow t
of the preaoher.—Current Literature for
BETTER THAN SPANKING
Spanking dem flOt cure children of
bed-wetting. There is a constitutional
crone for this trouble. Mrs. itT. Summers,
Box IV. 8, Windsor, Ont., will umaii free
to any mother her (successful home treat-
rnent, with full instructions, Send no
money, but write her to.day if your chil-
dren trouble you in this way. Don't
bleme the .ehild, the chances are It can't
help it. This treatment also curer adults
and agedpeople troubled with urine din
fieulties by day or night.
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Wanted a Part of the Bet,
Congressman Ohamp Claris was a pas-
senger recently on a train ineind for
Kansas City, when he was much, amused
by the soliloquy of an old chap who, it
appeared, was proceeding.to the city
named on certain legal business. The
joluney Was nearly completed when the
elderly person became possessed of the
notion that certain important papers
had been left behind. After it hurried in-
vestigation of his bag he observed:
ll1
foofd I left thosePm
papers' behind a
A Httle later he resumed his examina-
tion of the bag's contents. "I bat it'll
turn out Pm a feel," he murmured, sad-
ly, • s
When another mile or two had been
accomplished he rummaged through the
bag once more, and as ho turned over the
last bundle repeated:
"It will sure eurn out a fooll"
At this juncture- a testy individuid
occupying the adjoining Enat took a
hand. Frowning upon the old cheep who
had so often offered to wager that he
was a fool, the irritable person booked
over Use edge of bis newspaper, and
with sancastic interest said:
'Would you oblige me, sir, by laying
a little money that same way for men'
First Crook—Yes; Pm making goal
money now. Second Crook—What at?
First Crook—Counterfeiting.
The State of Washington leads in
lumber production. From Bellingham
the shipments by cargo lots alone am-
ounted, lad year, to 150,200,028 feet.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, it is said, has
offered to present to tbe Kaiser a plas-
ter met of the giant extinct reptile
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ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT re-
moves all hard, soft and calloused luneps
and blemishes front horses, blood spawn,
curbs, splints, ringbone, seeeeney, stifles,
smelts. sore and swollen throat, coughs,
ete. &lye $50 by use of one bottle.
Warranted the most wonderful blemish
Cure ever known. Sold by druggists.
A Canny Scot.
To illuenrate the oanniness of lien Soot
the following tale is told: A inerehant
a.nd a faraner were descuselng
eeortomy in a railroad carriage. After a
while the anerehant filled (his pipe, lit it,
and settled. back for a comfortable
smoke. 'Ile farmers took ltie pipe from
hie pocket, and after gazing longingly
at lea empty bowl, linked leis compatnloin
for a match The merchant denoted one
; from a herge boxful and handed, it over.
Said the flamer: "I am afraid I've
oame away wi'ont my tetecy potent."
"Well," said the merchant, holding
out his bath, "then yell no be in need
of that enatch."—1i:11adelphta Ledger.
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Minard's Liniment_ for sale everywhere.
No Need of a Fire.
"Wasn't it awful?" ex,deemed the
apartment -house girl. "Tbe furnace was
entirely out lest night,"
"I never noticed it," replied her chum.
"What? Never noticed it? And you
eat in the cold pettier for two howls
Witlywaly?
the m
* young an. Who was
tab
"An old fluane,"—tpulek.
Lost His Bearings.
Noah opened a window in the ark and
looked out on the wild waste of waters.
"I haven't the least idea where I am,"
he said, "but this looks like Gage Park."
Feeling that in any event it would be
utterly uaeless to appeal to Mrs. Hetty
Green for relief, he closea the window
and resolved to wait petiently till the
waters eubsided of their own accord.
ak,ronscs Quinine"
That is
Laxative Barrialte Quinine
USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE' A GOLD IN ONE DAT.
Always remember the full name. Look
for this signature on every box. 26e.
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